Aftermath (2014)

Ed needs drug money!!! There are so many things wrong with this movie that it's hard to find something nice to say about it. Don't let the good reviews fool you; they were probably written by family members of the cast. Here are some of the thoughts I had while watching this garbage. Why is it that when the doctor gets shot the bullet hole is through and through yet he's somehow able to pull a bullet out? Who keeps a Geiger counter lying around? At the end of day 1, they act like they've been in that cellar for months, so why is everyone always breathing heavy when they're not doing anything? Edward Furlong pretending to be angry is pretty funny but his acting is terrible. I'm pretty sure the only reason he was cast was for comedic value. He looks completely strung out which he probably is. Why are they smoking around a pregnant woman? Why doesn't the guy trying to break in the cellar announce himself? It's obvious that he could hear them. Then, when he gets shot, it's through his wrist but he's acting like he's about to die. How does the kid die from pneumonia so fast? How did I manage to sit through this entire movie? There's a lot more, but I'm running out of space here so all I'll say is this movie is terrible and don't waste your time.

It seems like whenever Edward Furlong needs to pay child support, we end up with about three of these stinkers per year. Is it really all that bad? Pretty much.'Aftermath' is about a group of strangers (original) locked up together inside of a basement during a nuclear apocalypse. It's supposed to be a realistic view on how we would act during such a tragic event. Why this needs a 90 minute runtime is beyond me, because the character development still ends up being awful, even though the entire film is based around that factor. When the action finally does set it, it ends up being entirely unnecessary. Why not just end the film the way you began it? Did we really need a group of zombie hillbillies that have no clue what the hell they're doing? The film wouldn't have been any worse.Random Ramblings Of A Madman: Looking at Monica Keena for 92 minutes will never be thought of as a negative, and she makes the time fly by, but your film's success should never be based around that factor alone. As for Eddie Furlong - Those 'T2' paychecks no longer cover life's responsibilities, so unless his local dealer decides to have a clearance sale, we should be seeing more Furlong 'greats' in the near future.

Escapist entertainment no – this film shows the 'original' sin of motion picture: it carries you away not to entertain you but eat you, chew you up and spit you out. Hollywood is not here with its heartthrob, its please you to buy a ticket, its placate your desire to see "everything is awesome," to quote from the Lego's movie. I do have to say if you want to slit your wrists don't watch this film tonight.I don't know if you've noticed it, but today especially there are a number of end of the world movies out. If you watch this one you'll probably not see the end of the world, but the end of a couple of cities as we know them – the closest look at apocalypse limited or otherwise in cinema thus far, hands down, unless you're old enough to remember Testament. Pity this film chooses a total U.S. nuclear holocaust as opposed to a limited nuclear disaster, but then so does dream, amplifies things so to show them, and this film does reach those engrossing depths of human nature, unknown actors though it has, unknown but lost in their parts, and, consequently, you too.You just think I'm in an armchair with my review rant, but in 1982 I parachuted with my A team into what was then West Germany with a tactical nuke (our captain carried), Donny Duke that Green Beret that found the world was not what it seemed, an unquestioning patriot from Texas. You don't know the carelessness with which we treat nukes. You don't know how close we come. Only weapons grade plutonium we lacked. Sound familiar?I wonder at the mistake Netflix made with this movie, releasing this one instead of the Polish movie of the same name and year it was supposed to release, how that happened, because without that glitch this unheard of film would not have gotten a wide audience. Who did it, purposefully I mean, man or fate? We only know that this film gives both knowledge and a warning both almost unpalatable to our movie going tastes. We are shown what we need to do in the event of a nuclear explosion, and we are shown more in the bargain, uncomfortably more than what we bargained for: ourselves at one and the same time the worm and the demigod. You have to watch intimately to see this film is not as hopeless as it seems, with the 'good doctor', the hero of the film, reduced to barbarity and the good people shown to be the animals they are.If you have an eye for the depths you'll hear the token Black, here well chosen, a cultural determinant thought to be a nobody, tell us what's up. Listen to his report, how the immigrants are lined up and shot, how people just give in to their inhumanity, how despite all that this is your moment in the sun with destiny, and you don't want to meet your maker a coward shaking in your boots. He gives us such an example of what humanity is more made of than the beast with his good death – his self-sacrifice to take the body of a child away so that it doesn't rot in the room of our hope hopeless though it is. See the old man die with such dignity not a burden but a blessing to all, the child die slowly not complaining at his pain, and watch the despicable man you want shot change into the man you want to be there when you need someone to depend on, and you will see the power of cinema, and maybe too a future for some unfortunate city or two somewhere or another on our crowded warring planet. Can you stand and face them?

The overall story line of this movie was a good idea but the script, acting, and unrealistic events made it almost unbearable to watch.To start with the script contained too much information at the beginning and continued slightly throughout the movie. It wasn't as bad as telling you every action the character was going to do but pretty close.The acting was sub par but that is to be expected when using lower grade actors. The unrealistic events are numerous. From raiding a grocery store and nobody else being there, to groups of people attacking this specific house away from town for no apparent reason and fully knowing that the people within are armed. The attackers make no demands, they are all in zombie like states of mind until someone in the house recognizes them as a friend. One of the characters is shot in the beginning while trying to find shelter in a home and then later removes the bullet from his shoulder even though you see an exit wound.